MWJ Staff

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $16 M contract from the US Navy for production of five additional AN/UPX-24(V) interrogator sets for the US Navy and the Australian Navy. The AN/UPX-24(V) is a shipboard identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) processor system that is used to identify aircraft or ships equipped with an...

Raytheon Co.’s Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) at Thule Air Base, Greenland, has achieved a significant milestone on its path toward operational status, successfully tracking its first satellite in an operational space surveillance mission configuration. “It is impressive that this event was accomplished after only 31 hours of test...

The US Navy has awarded Raytheon Co. a $5.5 M contract for a technology maturation study of next-generation jammer capability. The Next Generation Jammer program will support the Navy’s airborne electronic attack requirements by developing innovative ways of tactical jamming against current and future threats from the EA-18G aircraft...

Royal Philips Electronics and VTT have opened an InnoHub in the city of Espoo, close to Helsinki to generate innovative ideas and translate these into profitable businesses. The two companies have an equal role in the cooperation. The InnoHub is situated in the Active Life Village (a non-profit company...

The European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, and the Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, Heinz Zourek, have signed an amendment to the EC-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) agreement that will extend the scope of the original Agreement...

Saab’s investment in India is continuing with the opening of an office in New Delhi, which will support the company in its efforts to market products for defence and civil security in the Indian market. Saab is committed to providing its cutting-edge technologies across air, land and sea. The...

The Open University and e2v will open the e2v Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) at The Open University’s Milton Keynes, UK, campus. The centre will be dedicated to the research and development of advanced technologies for electronic image sensing and provide knowledge exchange between the UK technology industry and...

The Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance has released a document that outlines the requirements for self-optimising networks (SON). In order to provide overall guidance on solutions supporting SONs for the future, the new document provides several use cases and identifies requirements of operators aiming to implement SONs. SONs...

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society, is commemorating its 125th Anniversary this year with a variety of activities surrounding the theme of “Celebrating 125 Years of Engineering the Future.” Major anniversary events include the first IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition for college and university students worldwide; a...

After 25 years of stellar growth, the cell phone (also known as mobile phone) industry faces huge challenges this year from a poor economy and a lack of new features, reports In-Stat. The bleak cell phone industry outlook is unprecedented, with dramatic ramifications for device manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and...